While home sick, I’m reflecting on the incredible opportunity I got to ride in a 8 week boot camp on a school master master a few years ago. The day of this video, the school master wasn’t available and so I got the privilege to ride Bella, a Grand Prix horse now owned by Gina Smith. If you ever get the chance to ride a school master, what they teach you is worth every minute and every penny. Was my haft pass perfect… No, was my canter pirouette perfect…No (this was my first pirouette ever 🙈)…. The experience INVALUABLE!
First ride of 2025! Darcy and I were both a little tense today so the ride wasn’t as relaxed as I’d hoped, but we had some good moments. Darcy struggles with relaxation, he is so sensitive and talented that sometimes we both struggle to allow his body to do what it does best. It requires trust from both of us! But this is training and developing a young horse, you keep at it… Training is NEVER linear 🙈
I recently had the opportunity to have 3 virtual lessons with Diane Creech, which I won this summer in the Canadian NAYC Dressage Team auction. It was my first time doing the virtual lessons with the Pivo, and it went great! I learned so much and have my homework 😁 Darcy overall was great, other than some young man tantrums but he’s a quick learner thankfully 😂 A HUGE Thank you to Diane for the incredible lessons and to Vanessa for helping organize these lessons.
Is it pretty, No, is it balanced, No, is he tense, yes….But did he get his right canter lead YES!!!!
It’s hard to post things when it isn’t polished or it shows your weaknesses, but we need to normalized the struggles that come with training our horses. Who knows, someone may have a great exercise or idea on how to improve your point of struggle.
For Darcy, his right lead canter has been a major source of difficulty and tension for him. He isn’t consistent yet, it’s coming …..but the struggle is still very very real! Let’s stop being afraid of posting the struggles and only showing/posting the great moments. Let’s help each other out and allow ourselves to be vulnerable once in a while #thestruggleisreal #horses #training #horsetraining #warmblood #blackcopperequestrian
It was a beautiful morning for a Brody massage! Sweetest boy ever, and he had some lovely releases too…
Also, he’s for sale if anyone is interested 😊, I can put you in touch with the owner if you’re interested.
After a winter (well sorta winter, if you can even call what we got winter) with snow, ice and mud where horses had to likely walk slightly more carefully and have a stiffer and shorter gait, why not get a massage to make them feel their best for spring training 😁
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Thank you Sarah Roney for having me come work with Brody! Such a sweet boy who I think enjoyed his massage today 😊🦄 I love love love making horses feel their best! #equinebodywork #equinebodyworker #equestrian #horse #blackcopperequestrian
What makes equestrians so resilient is if plan A doesn’t work, we have plan B, C, D and so many more , either due to “baby” moments, weather and many other factors outside our control. Darcy has been finding excuses and being a little difficult with working outside so today he quickly realized the error in his plan 😆 What he didn’t count on was mom’s plan B… don’t want to walk quietly under saddle, then you get lunged and have to do lots of trot in the deep snow 🙈 We need to learn to roll with the punches when working with horses, especially young ones, it’s never linear
